Rape Escape Options
Ultimate Prevention

Ultimately, Rape Escape Options include knowing that a woman facing rape can never be sure if the rapist intends "only" to rape her without further harming or even killing her afterward. If a rapist does become violent with a submissive victim, the escalation is usually sudden and explosive.

If Posturing isn’t working, Fleeing isn't possible, and Outsmarting is falling short, you have two options left for rape escape: Surrendering or Fighting. Dare you risk surrendering and putting yourself fully at the mercy of a criminal – or fighting? Only your Intuition can guide you. If you do choose to fight, then attack him as described in Fighting Options and/or as described below.

Ultimately, responding to any violent predator with an eye-gouging, throat-piercing, testicle-shredding kill-or-be-killed fight for your life may well be your best chance for rape escape and survival. See Optimal Mindset.

Michael Flood, a research fellow with the Australia Institute, says there is evidence that some brothers or families may share rape-supportive attitudes towards women, such as "a belief in two types of women – good girls and sluts – where you can do whatever you like with sluts". ... Flood says some people believe that women "asked or deserved to be raped if they dress in revealing ways or if they accept drugs or an offer of a lift". He says there is a belief that such women "deserve whatever comes to them", because of "a hostility towards them and contempt of women, even a view of women as whores and bitches".
Excerpted from The Sydney Morning Herald – 24 April 2004

Beware of exposing yourself to some barbaric males when certain clothes impede your running and fighting for rape escape. Or, think how you would fight in those clothes – such as kicking off your high heels to run or kick. However, that's merely the beginning of a new attitude – which requires your absolute willingness to cause severe injury to a rapist.

Taking a Bite Out of Crime

A woman walked into police headquarters holding an unusual piece of evidence: a pair of testicles she'd bitten off an attacker. She was walking on a city street when a man cornered her and demanded she perform oral sex. She placed her teeth around his testicles and when he hit her in the head, she bit them off. Her attacker was nowhere to be found until a man minus his testicles turned up at a nearby hospital. Police put two and two together (or rather, two and minus two) and arrested him for sexual assault.
Excerpted from The Chicago Sun-Times – 19 May 2001

Police said between eight and 10 men broke into the nurses' dormitory at the Mendi School of Nursing in Papua, New Guinea and as one of them attempted to rape a student nurse, she grabbed a pair of scissors and partially cut off his penis. The man was arrested when he sought treatment for his damaged genitals at Mendi hospital.
Excerpted from NineMsn (Australia) – 12 July 2001

"I was awakened with a start and there was a man on top of me. I was flat on my back and he was flat on me. I was pinned down and my arms were by my side. 'Shut up you fucking bitch or I'll kill you,' he said as he began punching me in the face. Pushing his chest with my right hand, I punched his face wildly with my left. I thought I was going to die. No, not die - be killed. ... I had another simple thought. 'I'm going to be raped.' And then, 'I don't want to be raped.' So when he turned his attention back to my face, stroking my hair, and putting his tongue in my mouth, I bit it as hard as I could. He yelped, and lurched backwards. I saw an opening and went for his penis. I squeezed, twisted and dug my nails in and he went berserk. I can't remember being hit - all I was thinking was: 'I'm not letting go.' ... At some point he tired of hitting me or maybe the pain got too great. Anyway I saw another opening and using his penis for leverage, I hauled myself up into a sitting position and managed to head-butt him as hard as I could. He fled."
Excerpted from The Guardian Observer (UK) – 12 November 2006 by Abi Grant

Even when erect, a penis is merely soft tissue that's attached to a man's body only by weak, blood-engorged, spongy tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels – not by bone, cartilage, ligament, tendon, or anything at all sturdy. The same goes for the testicles and scrotum. Thus, a man's genitalia are extremely vulnerable.

A rapist's genitalia is within reach of the (unbound) victim – either from behind or in front – and many martial artists claim that it can be easily torn off his body. However, a lack of volunteers to test this theory forces it to remain part of martial arts’ lore. Yet, if you think about it, this very same lack of volunteers makes it blatantly obvious that it's far too dangerous for anyone in his right mind to try testing this theory – even a failed attempt could maim.

So it's a safe bet that a woman ferociously wrenching a rapist's genitalia like wringing out a washcloth – even one-handed – will seize absolute control of the encounter. With the utmost irony, his fragile tool of crime suddenly becomes his undoing – truly poetic justice.

Or, if you're forced to perform fellatio, his penis or testicles can easily be bitten off. Either biting off or tearing off his genitalia will cause a rapist to suffer severe pain, blood loss, reactive shock, and panic. In all likelihood, he'll frantically scramble to get away from you – especially if you keep furiously attacking him until you suddenly flee – and the police will easily find him when he desperately seeks attention at a hospital.

If he tries to kiss you, bite into his lips until your teeth meet – chomp down as hard as possible – then vigorously shake your head side-to-side to cause maximal damage - as described in Clinch Attack. Then immediately attack him with furious Mixed Strikes to ensure your rape escape. See Fighting Strategies.

Any time a victim fights back against a rapist, they may cause each other to bleed, thus she risks exchanging her blood or other bodily fluids with his. But few rapists have HIV/AIDS (less than 1 percent of the general population does). Further, a woman biting a rapist with HIV/AIDS/STDs – or fighting back at all – has no more risk of becoming infected than if she were raped by him (again, exchanging bodily fluids).

While calmly reading this, you may feel that maiming a rapist is too gruesome an act for you for rape escape. That, of course, is your decision – though you'll likely feel very differently during an actual attack. Yet you still have a very powerful option: grabbing his genitalia with a crushing grip and holding on until you can maneuver him into a situation from which you can safely escape – as did Curtescine Lloyd in Overview.

For convenience, learn self-defense online:

KRAV MAGA, used by the Israeli military and many police forces worldwide, teaches you to defend yourself and the animal instinct for doing so. Not a martial art, it's a “self-defense system.” The difference: a martial art suggests an aesthetic sensibility and an underlying philosophy. Krav Maga is a practical, pressure-tested system which can be applied under extreme stress. It's not flashy, just very effective for rape escape. I highly recommend it. See Krav Maga TV - Online Training. Their training videos are especially convenient to learn at home when your schedule allows or if you don't live near a training center.

Rape Escape Options:
• Rape Escape Options - Overview of options you never knew you had.
• Rapist Types: empowering insights into the minds of rapists.
• Rape Prevention: confronting a predator effectively.
• Ultimate Rape Prevention (YOU’RE NOW ON THIS PAGE): options for disabling a rapist’s tool of crime for true poetic justice.
• Rape Survivors: counseling needs for rape survivors and her loved ones.
• Choosing a Self-Defense Class to prevent rape and help a rape survivor regain control of her life.
• Recap of Rape Escape Options.
• Fighting Options
• Pepper Spray & Devices

Also see Women’s Safety and Date Rape.

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